List: User Experience | Curated by Mary Mahling Carns

Jan 9, 2025
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The story of the Google Weather Frog and the price of ditching delightI like cute animals. You like cute animals. It seems that Big Tech does not like cute animals, and maybe they should.
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Why asking “What‘s your pain point?” doesn’t workLike many of you recently, I deactivated my X/Twitter account to use BlueSky. A couple of things struck me when I made the move:
Dec 10, 2024
Dec 10, 2024
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Can a navflow diagram replace your low-fi wireframes?As designers, we don’t have tools that clearly express to non-designers how an app would work — not even Figma. Even a low-fidelity…
Oct 24, 2024
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Oct 24, 2024
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Going right to designing screens at a new job sets you up for failure, what to do insteadIf you are a UX or Product designer, the first few weeks at a new job can be awkward. You have already gone through the interview…
Sep 12, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
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Mary Mahling Carns
“I alone can fix it” doesn’t work for productsI have witnessed sprint planning sessions nearly turn into fistfights.
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
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UX Collective
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Patrick Sharbaugh
Fire, ready, aimThe race to shoehorn half-baked AI features into enterprise products is a cynical subversion of UX that’s likely to lead to less adoption…
Aug 20, 2024
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UX Collective
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Robert Stribley
The tyranny of consistencyConsistency is helpful as a tool for designing user-friendly experiences. Until it isn’t.
Oct 31, 2024
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The 2024 UX and Product reckoning, and how OOUX can helpWe thought that having UX design practices at companies prevents these bad experiences. UX has been around for a while, and yet products…
May 14, 2024
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May 14, 2024
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Debbie Levitt
Nielsen and Norman Should Be IgnoredMy LI feed lately is full of people unhappy with what one of these guys said. They’re not influencers anymore. Take them off the pedestals.
Mar 4, 2024
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The epidemic of not listening and how it’s hurting your businessA couple of years ago, I was working on an Agile team building a notification service. Because it was a notification service, we were…
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 20, 2024
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UX Collective
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Matej Latin
90% of designers are unhirable?Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it
Mar 6, 2024
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Designing for short (or no) attention spansYesterday, I took advantage of Black Friday sales to buy a Bluetooth speaker since my old one stopped working. Although I have worked…
Nov 28, 2023
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Nov 28, 2023
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Mary Mahling Carns
Thinking in layers and what’s the difference between UX and Product?If there is anything that I dislike more than those “UX vs. UI/Product vs. UX” images on Instagram or LinkedIn, it’s the comments that…
Oct 24, 2023
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Oct 24, 2023
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Mary Mahling Carns
How did I get from UX to Strategy?This is the story of an actual conversation I had with an actual client who hired me, and other people, to redo a software product. One of…
Aug 23, 2023
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Sophia V Prater
Wrangling UX Complexity with Tree Systems 🌲Learn to recognize and leverage this ubiquitous hierarchy pattern that you’ve probably never heard of
Jun 30, 2023
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Jun 30, 2023
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In praise of the old Weird Wide Web and why it matters nowMy first job with “web” and “design” somewhere in the title was about a year before the .com bubble burst. Even then, I could see — newly…
Jun 6, 2023
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UX Collective
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Darren Yeo
Double Diamond v4.1: an operating manual for designers using AIThe Double Diamond will likely continue to have admirers and critics. Nevertheless, designers will continue to express themselves.
Nov 28, 2023
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Nov 28, 2023
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Show your power users that you care: shortcut strategiesYears ago, before I changed my profession towards design, I sold classified advertising for newspapers. It was the nineties, so we all…
May 10, 2023
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May 10, 2023
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Mary Mahling Carns
When people get used to crap: strategies to avoid the sunk cost fallacyI studied photography when I was in college. The dirty smelly analog kind, the kind when you’re in a darkroom for hours on sunny days…
Apr 26, 2023
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Sophia V Prater
The Object-Oriented UserAn updated, expanded, roughed-up version of an article printed in the November 2016 issue of NET Magazine.
May 27, 2017
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